What would you do with $201 Million dollars?

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UpToAnyCool
UpToAnyCool Posts: 1,673
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Just curious. What would you do with that much money? I can't really even mentally visualize how much money that is!
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  • dorktv
    dorktv Posts: 30
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    Waste the vast majority of it probably.

    Donate to causes I care about otherwise.
  • KaleighL
    KaleighL Posts: 159
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    Pay for college, buy a nice home, get a car, and occassionally shop. :)
  • cdngirl71
    cdngirl71 Posts: 2,707 Member
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    I would give most of it away. You don't need that much money to live comfortably. I would give lots to Japan right now. I would be fine with just 5 million. Pay off bills and mortgage. Buy a new house and car. Of course go travelling too.
  • chuckyp
    chuckyp Posts: 693 Member
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    Pay off the house. Landscape the back yard like it was a 1-acre resort. Buy a really nice airplane. Travel a LOT more. And probably the requisite expensive sports car.
  • clahut
    clahut Posts: 211 Member
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    In the UK tonight we have Comic Relief (for those in the US - this is a telethon hosted by loads of standup comedians and actors). Having watched the films shown of kids dying young with not enough food to eat or suffering from preventable illnesses - I'd keep what I need to have me and my own comfortable and buy malaria nets and food supplies for these kids.
  • Carl01
    Carl01 Posts: 9,370 Member
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    There are a couple people I would make sure were taken care of for the rest of their life.
    After that would have places to live around the country where I could hide from anything that resembles winter weather.:tongue:
  • LOVEsummer
    LOVEsummer Posts: 304 Member
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    put 10% in a savings account...
    Hire someone kick *kitten* to invest 30% of it
    Split 25% of it between various charities or start a trust
    disperse 15% to my family, carefully, with stipulations (it's my lotto money biatches so you all have to spend it on things like college and paying off debt etc!!)
    Spend 10 % on frivolous fun things like buying my dad his dream home and a car, myself a car and a few trips, a ridiculous pair of YSL and Louboutin heels... :)

    10% on another savings account... you never know when 20.1M will come in handy ;-)
  • bzmom
    bzmom Posts: 1,332 Member
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    I agree I would help Japan. Pay off mortgages for my family members and mine and purchase a house for those that dont have one. Pay my student loan. Donate to downs syndrome. make savings for my kids so they dont have to worry about student loans the way we have. I think I would build a second floor at my house to make more space for us I dont think I would move.
  • hwjssc
    hwjssc Posts: 194 Member
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    I would go on the honeymoon I never had..and give away some too:)
  • mandykasase
    mandykasase Posts: 110
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    the 1st thing i would do is take my kids to disney world, the proper one not the one in paris. then i would put a chunk away for their college fund, buy a house put my kids in really good schools, buy my mama a big ol' house with maids. give to charities, set up foundation and blow a big chunk on shopping.
    You can tell i have thought about this!!!
  • Franticantics
    Franticantics Posts: 117
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    Make sure all my family are debt-free and set for life. A house for my Aunt. Make sure my grandmother has no money worries ever.
    Buy myself a nice apartment in london and a house near my college which i would rent out.
    Create bursaries/scholarships in musical/dance theatre to help with the DADA situation.
    Give money to charities that actually mean something to me.
    THEN, i would seriously hit the shops :P
  • puggleperson
    puggleperson Posts: 740 Member
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    okay there are just wayy to many things to list. :)

    First I would buy this house I have been eyeing for two mil :) Actually I would buy a few vacation houses. i would start my own business that I think about daily, take lots of vacations all around the world.

    I would most def help out in Japan and I would commit myself for life to all the homeless animals. spay and neuter prevention will be my thing :) wooo hooo


    Don't shop ADOPT! Spay and Neuter your pets please!
  • loriefolk
    loriefolk Posts: 352
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    85% would go to a variety of charities immediately

    I would buy a home and land, make improvements in my community, and assist a family in need :)
  • Mindful_Trent
    Mindful_Trent Posts: 3,954 Member
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    Pay off my debts, pay off my parents' mortgages, put some money in a trust fund for my siblings' educations (I'm done with college, but none of them are), put money aside for my retirement, future kids' college educations, and to cover any unanticipated crisis', buy a house, and then donate the majority of the rest to various charitable organizations.
  • ebkins7
    ebkins7 Posts: 427 Member
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    10% of it would be given to my church for a tithing first off... then a house, pay off debt, save for child's college and investments... Probabaly give some to help out struggling family, and donate some to charities. That ammount of money is so unfathomable to me tho, but that's what I would do with it!
  • Giovanni_P
    Giovanni_P Posts: 107
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    Hire someone to exercise for me. lol

    No seriously, I'd build and open up a gym that caters to children, and adults. Instead of the current system where children under the age of 16 have to go to the daycare room.
    I dont know why they cant put jungle gyms, trampolines, aerobics and dance classes, even mini treadmills and ellipticals in the gym. Kids are getting fat at the same rate we are.
  • chris0912
    chris0912 Posts: 242 Member
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    Why 201 million? Seems like a random number. But hubby and I have talked about it so much, so here goes...
    1) pay off all debt, including our house
    2) make repairs necessary to sell our house (even if it's at a loss)
    3) build an "off the grid" dream home in Colorado and move
    4) replace our gas-guzzlers with 1 eco-friendly vehicle
    5) set up investments so that we only have to work if we want to (and volunteer instead)
    6) help out family members
    7) travel
    8) donate
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
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    Party Charlie Sheen style!!!! Start my own porn star family.
    open my own adult bookstore(I really do want to do this)
    trust funds for the kids that they dont get unless they spend 2 years working for min wage
    start a no kill shelter
    donate
    go back to school myself
  • britt_fit
    britt_fit Posts: 169
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    First a personal trainer and personal chef!!! :smile: Who knows what else after that. I'd definitely donate some.
  • lutzsher
    lutzsher Posts: 1,153 Member
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    Roll around in it naked . . . that is a heck of a pile I would imagine!

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